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The Pakistan Amateur Radio Society (PARS) reports that a cross-band emergency repeater is set to provide the first communications of its type to the flood hit Swat Valley, linking it to the rest of the country through a chain of 2-metre band repeaters

The purpose of the New Zealand Amateur Radio Day is to promote our hobby to the public so that some may be encouraged to join the local club, take on classes and become amateur radio operators

The upcoming Bonaire DXpedition plan to use the large antenna farm of Radio Netherlands between October 10-24 when they activate this new DXCC entity

It's always worth keeping a check on 145.800 MHz FM for the ISS astronauts as a YouTube video shows

Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is still at low levels. A rash of small sunspots is breaking out across the sun's northern hemisphere. Unfortunately they all appear to be fairly inactive

Two classes will start this coming Thursday, September 9, at 7pm in the Scout HQ in Bath

AMSAT area coordinator Clint Bradford, K6LCS, will be presenting his 'Working Amateur Satellites With Your HT' multimedia session at the September 14 meeting of the Coachella Valley Amateur Radio Club

Two important deadlines are approaching for AMSAT's 2010 Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting being held on Friday, October 8 through Sunday, October 10

On Sept. 4th around 1600 UT, a magnetic filament erupted, hurling a bright coronal mass ejection (CME) off the sun's northwestern limb

So far AREC (Amateur Radio Emergency Communications) volunteers have not been required in any major way to assist, following the earthquake that hit Christchurch in New Zealand

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred in Christchurch, New Zealand, at 0435 hours (NZ local time), 4 September 2010. Several aftershocks of between magnitude 3.9 and 5.2 have occurred and more aftershocks are expected

A sad end to the search for a Glendale, Arizona, radio ham who went missing in mid August

AP2AUM from the Pakistan Amateur Radio Society reports that emergency communications support has been extended in the past week to include three more villages

Claims continue to steadily arrive for this limited edition operating award celebrating the Centenary of Organised Amateur Radio in Australia with more than 160 now issued

Solar conditions still continue to be fairly poor. As I write this on 3 September there are sunspots, but the solar flux is stubbornly in the mid to high 70s. There have been auroral conditions over the past few days and we can expect to see more unsettled conditions as the cycle progresses

Hynix will start manufacturing Memristors first demonstrated by HP in 2006. It will be the first time this new circuit component has been mass produced

A new Network Affiliated RAYNET Group is being formed in the mid-Pennine region of Lancashire

Over this past week four new sunspot groups appeared. Group 1101 was already in place since August 24, and 1102 emerged on August 29

A come and try ARDF event will be held at Sherrardspark Wood near Welwyn Garden City on Sunday 12 September

The five islands of the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean Sea are to undergo constitutional status changes next month and result in a four new DXCC entities